Tyler Kalachnik is a partner in the Firm's Municipal Finance Group. Tyler has served as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, disclosure counsel and borrower's counsel for both long-term and short-term financings involving the pledge of revenues, taxes or a combination thereof. Tyler also has experience in transactions involving letters of credit, standby bond purchase agreements and interest rate swaps.

Tyler is a 1999 graduate of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School. In 2003, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in history with a minor in business from Indiana University Bloomington. In 2006, he earned his juris doctorate, summa cum laude, from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

While in law school, Kalachnik was selected and served as a contracts tutor in the Dean's Tutorial Society, an articles editor for the Indiana Law Review, and was a member of the Committee on Diversity Initiative.

Kalachnik is a regular participant in activities of the National Association of Bond Lawyers through speaking engagements and contributions to the NABL education committee. From 2008 to 2011, Kalachnik served on NABL's Functions and Professional Responsibility subcommittee, which completed a revision of the third edition of The Function and Professional Responsibilities of Bond Counsel. From 2009 to 2011, Kalachnik was the chair of the NABL Associate Network. Kalachnik has served as a member of the steering committee for Bond Attorneys Workshop and has served as a Panel Chair for NABL's Tax and Securities Institute.

Tyler is active in the community as the former chair of the board of directors of Joy's House, a charitable organization serving the senior community, a member of the Indiana State Board of Psychology, the Brebeuf Jesuit Alumni Board and a board member of Indiana's Balance of State, Continuum of Care.

In 2009, Tyler was named an Up and Coming Lawyer by The Indiana Lawyer and was named a "Rising Star" from 2013-2018 by Indiana Super Lawyers. Tyler is rated "AV - Preeminent" by his peers through the Martindale-Hubbell review process.

He joined Ice Miller in September of 2006 and is licensed to practice law in the state of Indiana.

Representative Transactions

Served as Bond Counsel for over $1 billion financing involving Midwestern Disaster Bonds